Debian "wheezy" on X200

• Debian 6.0 (squeeze) CD, burned from ISO image. You may use another methods.
• Access to Debian “wheezy” repository. Local repository is recommended.
• Basic GNU/Linux administration.

• Install Debian “squeeze” into your X200, follow the steps.
• Boot to your “squeeze”, login as root.
• Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.

  # nano /etc/apt/sources.list

  Comment “squeeze” repository, and add this line. The URL depends on your access to your repository, in my case it is local repo in wheezy directory inside /media/repo/.

  deb file:/media/repo/wheezy/ wheezy main

• Update your packages index.

  # apt-get update

• Upgrade installed packages.

  # apt-get upgrade

• Upgrade distribution release from “squeeze” to “wheezy”.

  # apt-get dist-upgrade

These programs are installed, including all programs required that stated in Configuration section.

• Systems: firmware-iwlwifi (non-free), rsync, synaptic.
• Desktop: GNOME3
• Office: LibreOffice, amora-daemon.
• Graphics: Inkscape, The Gimp.
• Internet: Jitsi*, Mozilla Firefox*, Pidgin.
• Multimedia: GNOME MPlayer.

* From upstream project, not Debian official repository.

• Add your username to sudo group.

  # nano /etc/group

  sudo:x:27:stwn

• Install hdapsd and tp-smapi-dkms

  # apt-get install hdapsd tp-smapi-dkms

• Edit /etc/modules, add tp_smapi.

  # echo "tp_smapi" >> /etc/modules

• Download gnome-hdaps-osd archive, extract to your desired directory location, install python-pyinotify, libaosd2, and test it.

  # tar zxvf gnome-hdaps-osd_v0.2.tar.gz
  # cd gnome-hdaps-osd/
  # nano README
  # apt-get install python-pyinotify libaosd2
  # ./gnome-hdaps-osd.py

• Edit /etc/default/grub.

  # nano /etc/default/grub

  GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
  GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

• Update GRUB.

  # update-grub2

• Install plymouth.

  # apt-get install plymouth

• Add i915 module to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules/.

  # echo "i915" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

• Set Plymouth default theme.

  # plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity

• Update the initramfs image.

  # update-initramfs -u

• Install openssh-server.

  # apt-get install openssh-server

• Change the configuration to open SSH service to non-default port Use port above 1024.

  # nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

  Port 22000

• Restart SSH service.

  # service ssh restart

It is about dm-crypt, cryptsetup, LUKS, and LVM2.

• Backup your data, or else you will lose it.
• Check bad blocks with writing random patterns into partition /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda7.

  # badblocks -v -s -w -t random /dev/sda5
  # badblocks -v -s -w -t random /dev/sda7

• Setup and initialize partition with LUKS. Supply this commands with your passphrase.

  # cryptsetup -v -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sda5
  # cryptsetup -v -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sda7

• Open the LUKS format partition with your passphrase.

  # cyptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 yes0
  # cyptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda7 yes1

• Create Physical Volume (PV) for LVM2.

  # pvcreate /dev/mapper/yes0
  # pvcreate /dev/mapper/yes1

• Create Volume Group (VG) of LVM2 with “yes” name.

  # vgcreate yes /dev/mapper/yes0 /dev/mapper/yes1

• Check total Physical Extents (PE) of your VG.

  # vgdisplay | grep Total
  Total PE    30000

• Create Logical Volume (LV). I use all PE in this case.

  # lvcreate -l30000 -n crypt /dev/mapper/yes

• Format the LV with ext4 or other type of filesystems.

  # mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/yes-crypt

• Edit /etc/crypttab.

  # nano /etc/crypttab

  yes0   /dev/sda5   none   luks
  yes1   /dev/sda7   none   luks

• Edit /etc/fstab.

  # nano /etc/fstab

  /dev/mapper/yes-crypt   /media/crypt   ext4   relatime   0   2

• Reboot your machine and test it.